Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76

Title: Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76 Author: Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis ISBN: 9781849355001 Publisher: AK Press Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1562739 Publisher Description: A Cold War-era study of Latin American anarchism in action.Araiza Kokinis's study of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) broadens our understanding of the Cold War-era political landscape beyond the capitalism-communism and Old Left-New Left binaries that dominate the historiography of the epoch. Arguably the most impactful anarchist organization globally in the Cold War era, the FAU viewed everyday people as revolutionary protagonists and sought to develop a popular counter-subjectivity through accumulating experiences directly challenging the market and the state. The FAU argued tha